So, how to come up with new stories and be inspired again?
It’s never a sin to go back to the stories you loved growing up or the genres you liked growing up. Never a bad thing to go back to the well of what you like, but don’t shy away from a new book if it falls into your lap.
Currently, I'm reading The Shadow by James Patterson. It’s kind of like a revival of The Shadow if he woke up in the future from a cryogenic freeze. It’s a pulp, fish out of water story.
Also, nothing wrong with going back and reading some classic sword & sorcery favorites like Conan the Barbarian by Robert E. Howard.
A lot of what I read also affects what kind of comics I write. This next part is tough one, you must allow time to read new books. I try to go to the old classics in literature but sometimes those can be long and you have to be dedicated to get through them. It’s good to comic books too as long as its in a genre you like but you never know when something can completely surprise you in another genre.
So I guess the point of this blog entry is to get back to reading what motivated me to write in the first place. I’ll make a list and get back the books that I loved to read back when I was a teen. Back to Conan.
